Monte Carlo simulations

We need a range of Monte Carlo simulations of nuclear effects on parton prpagation and fragmentation, which allow us to simulate various phsyical ideas, and produce detailed projections for the various detectors and machines designs. Details on our Monte Carlo efforts can be found following the link below.

Machine designs

Our focus should be on the medium-energy EIC (MEIC@JLab or MeRHIC), but it would be useful to evaluate how this program could be extended to a full-energy EIC, and wether the full-energy machine is necessary for our physics program, or this can be completed with the medium-energy machine.

I note here the main machine designs currently under consideration for quick reference and to standardize our studies

Timeline

We want to complete our initial studies by the end of 2010 according to the timeline below, and to present our results first at the Argonne's "Nuclear Chromodynamics" workshop and then at the INT, Seattle, "The Science case for the EIC" workshop. Correspondingly we will contribute to 2 white papers. At the end of this first phase, we will evaluate how to continue.